Flooded Faron Woods (Revision 9469)

Upon landing in Flooded Faron Woods you should swim straight for the giant Kikwi Tribe Elder, Machi. He’ll tell you that Faron, the Water Dragon, has flooded the woods to rid them of enemies. She’s inside the Great Tree.

Head for the base of the Great Tree on the southeastern side. Enter the Great Tree and swim to the surface. Here you can talk to Faron.

Unfortunately, Faron doesn’t want to just GIVE you her part of the Song of the Hero. You’ll have to collect many fragments of the song, known as ‘’’Tadnotes’’’ scattered throughout the flooded woods.

Tadnotes are clumped together by color. You must collect every Tadnote in a group for the group to count. You only have a few seconds after touching one Tadnote to collect another of its color or the whole group resets. This means that long strings of Tadnotes must carefully and methodically be collected, while tight clumps can be collected all at once.

Your best asset in this fetch quest is your spin dash move, which sucks nearby notes into your vortex. Using this you can easily snag fleeing or clumped notes. Note that Tadnotes replenish your air supply, so dashing through them won’t leave you exhausted or worse.

After collecting all but 5 groups of Tadnotes, you can return to Machi and talk to him to get the ability to use Dowsing to find the remaining Tadnotes! This makes the remainder of the notes fairly easy. Until this point, here are the tougher Tadnotes to come by:

The very first Tadnote you should get is under a lotus leaf root pad which you must flip by dropping from a platform on the top of the Great Tree. This platform is on the north edge of the top of the tree just up from the Bird Statue.

A circle of pink Tadnotes in the far east surround a tree. Carefully swim from one to the next and, if you miss one, spin to hopefully collect it as you pass by.

Inside the smaller tree in the southeast is a clump of purple Tadnotes. Swim through a hole in its north trunk to reach them.

Four puple Tadnotes circle the southernmost hill. Swim behind them and spin into them.

The longest chain of notes is in the far southwest. This chain requires careful maneuvering -- you don’t need to spin to get from one to the next but it helps if you deviate from your path slightly.

Two Tadnotes are in two patches of grass west of the Great Tree.

Spin a Froak into the blocked wall on the western side of the Great Tree to blow it up and free a single Tadnote.

Return to Faron with your score complete and she’ll give you the portion of the Song of the Hero you need -- and drain the woods completely. Return to the sky and head for Eldin Volcano.